Chapter 863 - 387: Who Are You, Really?

Chapter 863: Chapter 387: Who Are You, Really?

"Found it? Hurry!"

When Gu Ji heard these words, his heart leaped as if he were on a roller coaster flying from the bottom to the top.

He hurriedly urged everyone to go over there.

It turned out the location mentioned by the workers was just at a curved section of the tracks not far from the station.

This area was also within the scope of their current maintenance project.

Gu Ji approached and saw that one of the 30 mm tracks was actually lifted up.

"What on earth is going on, why hasn’t the track reset?"

Before he could open his mouth, Haiji, the person in charge of this construction, questioned loudly first.

"I..."

"Captain, it was me. I left in a hurry at the end of work and forgot to check the reset..."

"Damn it! Do you know this could cost lives!!"

Upon hearing this response, Haiji angrily grabbed his collar, nearly cursing out loud.

"Woo——!"

But at this moment, the sound of the train roared from the tunnel entrance.

"Now’s not the time to assign blame, think of every possible measure, reset the track at the fastest speed, Haiji, contact the train driver again, hurry!!"

At the critical moment, Gu Ji loudly commanded everyone to prepare for remedial action.

"But resetting the track takes time, the train is almost here, we simply can’t make it!"

"Do it anyway, unless you want everyone to be buried for your one mistake!!"

To be honest, after experiencing five rounds of repeated deaths, reloading, and dying again, Gu Ji never imagined that a train explosion capable of shocking the world was merely due to a maintenance worker’s negligence.

Whether it was the early-phase man in a turban, the suit-wearing thug holding hostages, or the one known as "Iran’s Father of Modern Weapons," Ghabari.

Should we say there were too many interference options set by the game level, or did he just overthink?

Leaving his last words, Gu Ji ran to the pickup truck’s cab, adjusting the front lights to shine on the tunnel entrance and rapidly pressing the horn—one long, three short—repeatedly.

In train signal language, this signifies alarm.

At the same time, the group of maintenance workers hurriedly used tools to reset the track.

"Woo——!"

The next second, the massive locomotive burst out from the tunnel entrance, heading toward them at a maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour.

Gazing at the engine followed by a series of oval metal tanks filled with various flammable and explosive gases, everyone was stunned.

Finally understanding, Gu Ji was right.

"Hurry up, quick!"

"Quick, lend a hand!"

"Only 30 seconds left!"

"Beep—beep beep!"

While Haiji desperately urged his team, he pressed the walkie-talkie trying to communicate with the train driver.

In an instant, the workers’ anxious shouts, Gu Ji’s loud countdown, the pick-up’s piercing horn, and the train’s roar grew louder and faster, like music accelerating toward its climax.

Ten, nine, eight, seven...

Watching CZ3193 getting closer and closer to them.

At the final critical moment, whether Haiji reached the train driver, or Gu Ji’s lights and horn worked.

The train suddenly hissed, then the wheels began making teeth-grinding friction sounds with the tracks, the train finally started to slow down.

But an overweight freight train weighing over a thousand tons isn’t that easy to stop.

Even if the train had been slowed earlier, it was still heading toward the raised segment of the tracks at nearly 40 kilometers per hour.

"No time to fix it! Everyone move out!"

"Quick! Leave the site!!"

"Everyone, get in the truck! Vroom——!"

Seeing the train about to roll over them, Gu Ji rushed to start the engine, turning the steering wheel, letting workers jump onto the back, desperately driving away from the train.

A loud "bang" echoed.

Through the rearview mirror, Gu Ji watched the engine crush the loosened tracks.

Although the workers had placed them back.

But because there wasn’t time to secure it, soon it was repositioned by the vibration of the wheels and rolled under another track.

The liquefied gas tank car at the back was pressed up, causing the wheels to tilt.

The next second.

With a "whoosh" sound, the track suddenly shot out from underneath the train, like an arrow, brushing past Gu Ji’s pickup roof, piercing perfectly into a dirt mound in front.

Gu Ji quickly turned the steering wheel to avoid it.

The truck body made an extreme turn, nearly making the outer wheels lift off the ground.

The train behind seemed like a reflection.

The lifted wheel on the liquefied gas tank car suddenly left the track, causing a massive derailment and twist, dragging many cars behind to simultaneously derail.

The entire train appeared like an unruly steel dragon.

With metallic growls of "creak creak," pushing the engine completely off the track area, crushing the wild grassland, crashing into the wasteland.

"It’s over, it’s rushing toward us! It’s coming!"

"Move! Move quickly!!"

"It’s going to explode! We’re going to die!!"

...

In the back of the pickup, workers seeing the approaching train desperately beat on the rear window in fear.

Gu Ji floored the gas, loudly questioning Haiji in the passenger seat.

"You haven’t reached the driver yet?"

"Just contacted, the driver is applying emergency brake, trying to stop the train!"

"Tell him to be mindful of the terrain, never drive onto a slope—that would cause a rollover. If the liquefied gas tank leaks and encounters the friction sparks, we’re finished. Tell him to follow me!!"